History Main / DirtyOldMan

When played for comedy he is either a disgusting pervert who gets [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom beaten]] [[MegatonPunch up]] by the girls he assaults or a [[LoveableRogue delightful rogue]] whom the girls tolerate. When played seriously, he's usually some variety of sexual predator or mistaken as such, and finds it hard to prove his innocence.

The character's personality will usually be at least a little sympathetic, with him as either an amusing clown character or a MrViceGuy. Of course, [[MoralEventHorizon if he crosses the line into rape or worse, all bets are off]].

* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', the first corrupt authority figure the party [[HeelFaceBrainwashing forcibly reforms]] is Suguru Kamoshida, an Olympic athlete-turned-gym teacher with an unhealthy fixation on reliving his glory days. He also has a disturbing interest in the members of his all-girls volleyball team and [[spoiler: rapes a student, leading to her attempting suicide]], which is the point where the Phantom Thieves lose all doubts about going through with their plan.

* Also from the Tales series and also a younger example, we have Zelos Wilder, age 23, from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' who will literally flirt with any female human/elf/whatever that moves regardless of age. He calls little girls his "princess" or "rosebud" but this is actually played for laughs, rather than creepy. You can even get him the Gigolo title if you flirt with enough females.

In Britain, these characters are typically seen wearing brown mackintosh coats, which allow concealment of [[ADateWithRosiePalms a certain activity]], leading to them being referred to as "the dirty mac brigade." In the U.S., it has long been popular to depict this fellow traipsing around in a ConspicuousTrenchcoat (often with the innuendo that [[SexyCoatFlashing he's wearing]] ''[[SexyCoatFlashing nothing but]]'' [[SexyCoatFlashing the coat]]).

* ''Film/BoratSubsequentMoviefilm'': The film catches former New York mayor Rudy Guiliani on hidden camera reaching his hand down his trousers in front of a teenage BlondeRepublicanSexKitten (in reality it's [[DawsonCasting 24-yo]] Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova). At best, he was just tucking his shirt in; at worst, he was [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbating in front of her to try and seduce her]].

* ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'': Bell's grandfather is the one who tried to convince him to be a HaremSeeker, and every flashback involves him giving Bell perverted advice. As it turns out, [[spoiler:he's actually ''Zeus'', which explains a lot]].

* ''Series/TheStrangeCalls'': Gregor looks like an old man, though he has a VagueAge, variously claiming to be 47 or 90 as convenient for him. But he's certainly dirty. He is very enamored with CamWhore websites and frequently uses them while Toby is in the room, and often makes inappropriate sexual comments.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': In "Grandpa's Date", Grandpa Lou Pickles rents a few moviews. He picks out ''Reptar Come Home'' and ''Reptar Redux'' for the babies to watch, and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS-sGGy6sdA Lonely Space Vixens]]'' for himself, cheekily noting that last one is for ''after'' the kids go to bed.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': The fact that Grandpa Lou Pickles' personal favorite film is ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS-sGGy6sdA Lonely Space Vixens]]'' is enough evidence for him to be counted as one.

The "old" part of his description is mostly relative to the girls he accosts — a creepy thirty-something teacher eyeing his junior high school students is no less a Dirty Old Man than a geezer in his sixties pinching the bottoms of housewives in the supermarket, though it's worth bearing out that a younger Dirty Old Man's behavior is going to be seen as a good deal ''less'' harmless than that of his hoary-headed counterparts. Probably because a Dirty ''Old'' Man is supposedly less likely to chase his victims, or force worse things upon them. There's also the fact that regardless of the man's age, it's almost invariably considered less harmful for him to turn his attention on fully matured women, as opposed to girls who are still developing. Of course, since some men [[YoungerThanTheyLook start looking semi-elderly as early as their late twenties]], for all practical purposes, this trope covers a wide latitude.

For an {{anime}} variant which is somewhat less old, see LovableSexManiac. Played sympathetically, this character is likely to fall under ChivalrousPervert, and this is likely to be established early on to show that while he may be looking at them longingly, [[EveryoneHasStandards he has standards and will follow them religiously]].

* Kimura-sensei in ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', who freely admits that the main reason he became a teacher is ''"Because I like high school girls, that's why!"'' Even though he already has [[UglyGuyHotWife a ridiculously cute]] [[MemeticMutation waifu]] [[UglyGuysHotDaughter and daughter]].

* In ''Lilim Kiss'' has a high school boy being found by his mother with the titular Lilim (really a succubus) covered only by a towel. When she sits them down with her husband, the man's first scenes have him staring right at Lilim's chest. His wife and son are not amused.

* ''Manga/MakenKi'': Unlike most examples, [[BigBad Ouken Yamato]] isn't content to just look, or [[ThanksForTheMammary cop a feel]]. He has his own harem of concubines ranging from their late teens - early 20's and he's shagging '''[[ReallyGetsAround ALL]]''' [[http://www.mangatown.com/manga/maken_ki/c032/2.html of 'em]]. The old guy even perved [[FieryRedhead on Minori]], who's his mortal enemy, once he had her beat.

* Goei Harukawa is creepy enough in ''Moonlight Lady''. The fact that he gratuitously spanks Suzuna after finding her in bed with a maid, scouts the villages for women for Kouichi, watches Kouichi enjoy those women, or even watch his own ''niece'' get gangbanged makes him a dirty old man if there ever was one.

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': Rei Hino's unnamed grandfather is a total pervert who constantly harrasses girls, to the point where a magazine article was printed warning the neighborhood about him.

** It was edited out in the dub, but this was also the case with Shuzo Otaki, one of the Big 5 (named Crump in the dub), and with ''him'', it was obvious. He was clearly a pervert, so much that his intended target of GrandTheftMe was Anzu for this ''very'' demented reason. (He made some rather sexist comments towards Anzu ''and'' Dark Magician Girl too; DMG's reaction in the original version was very unsubtle.)

'''Grandpa:''' ''[while stroking poster]'' Oh [[CargoShip Black Luster Soldier]], no-one must know of our forbidden love.

* The Ephors in ''Film/ThreeHundred'' are a group of disgusting and putrid elders that always demand the most [[SoBeautifulItsACurse beautiful Spartan girls]] to live as oracles with them "for they have the [[AllMenArePerverts needs of men]] and [[EvilOldFolks souls black as Hell]]". In fact, they side with Persians when they are promised gold and a daily supply of girls from every corner of the empire.

* Reverse {{Lampshaded}} in ''Film/AHardDaysNight'', where the first comment about Paul's grandfather was "Very Clean Old Man". It was a Running Gag through the film that everyone kept commenting how Clean he was. This doubles as ActorAllusion as he was played by the same actor who portrayed Steptoe (see below).

* Park Chung-hee in ''Film/ThePresidentsLastBang'', as describe in detail when a madam recounts how Park fondled the nude body of one of her prostitutes. Plus there are all the bikini-clad girls cavorting in Park's swimming pool, and the two sexy babes brought to his party by flunkies. Park is the president of UsefulNotes/SouthKorea.

* The main character of ''El espejo de Lida sal'' by Miguel Ángel Asturias asks for romantic advice to a blind old man that fits squarely on this trope, being that he gropes her a couple of times.

* ''Literature/JakubWedrowycz'' not only really likes girls (as long as he can get his hands on some Viagra), but also [[GagPenis has the appropriate equipment]]. Probably one of the many reasons why, when he goes to confession (every few years), the priests usually react with panic or fainting.
* Humbert Humbert, the VillainProtagonist of ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'', a pedophile who marries a woman solely so he can lust after her titular daughter. After the woman's death, he kidnaps the girl and sexually abuses her over several years until she escapes as a teenager.

* ''Literature/ViceroysPride'': Right before Dan leaves for Twilight, Henry Ibis advises him to find some nubile, naive natives and seduce them. He literally and explicitly sees Dan as a StockLightNovelHero. Dan is disgusted that ''this'' is what Ibis is worried about on a mission to save the Earth, when they were just discussing how Dan could be tortured or killed.

* George Bluth, Sr. from ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''. He once asked a group of dolls which of them wanted to take their shirt off. Granted, he was a little stir crazy at the time...

* Kenneth in Season 2 of ''Series/DeviousMaids''. His maid and caretaker calls him this, as well as comments on his "naughty fingers" and tells him he has "a dirty mouth for a man who doesn't talk".

** Despite his age and vow of celibacy, Grand Maester Pycelle has no qualms hiring prostitutes and offering free "medical examinations" to young handmaidens.

* ''Series/SanfordAndSon'': Fred. ''Sanford and Son'' is the TransAtlanticEquivalent of ''Series/SteptoeAndSon'', and as such Fred possesses many of his counterpart's traits.

* Carly Pearce's "Next Girl" – the video for the song (set at a roadside bar) has Pearce, in various personas, propositioned by men who want her only for sex. One scene is quite blatant: A middle-aged man who badgers a waitress to come over so he can comment on her good looks.

** He also [[ForcefulKiss forced himself]] on Wrestling/TorrieWilson and Wrestling/BeckyLynch at different points of time.

* Japanese wrestlers Wrestling/YoshiakiFujiwara, Wrestling/SatoruSayama, and Don Arakawa used to sneak a peek in the woman bath of the inns they lived in when they were on tour.

* Codifier Togan from Soda Pop Miniatures's Relic Knights series is their iconic dirty old man. He's banned from ships, stations, and several planets. His miniature depicts him reaching out to pinch his Doctrine scribe Cecillia's backside, and the concept art goes a step farther (he's actually pinching her there).

* [[CreepyUncle Uncle Gamlen]] from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' fits this trope to a tee. He frequents the city's brothel on a regular basis and, if Hawke is female and romances Isabela, he eagerly inquires what the sex is like.

** Divayth Fyr, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 4000 year-old]] wizard, has created four OppositeSexClone "daughters", who are alternately referred to as his "wives," in an odd combination of ParentalIncest and ScrewYourself. However, potentially {{Downplayed}} in that it isn't played off as very {{Squick}}y, at least within his [[MageTower tower]].

*** Ultros. He attempts to grope Terra and flirts with Relm, to the point where she's able to save the party from him by charming him into letting her paint his portrait. Ultros's later appearances [[{{Flanderization}} exaggerate this aspect to him]], pushing him into DepravedBisexual territory.

* Johnny from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', who while not exactly ''old'', keeps only young (and often underage) women around as his crew (except maybe the fat cook). He also hits on Bridget, who is definitely [[PaedoHunt not legal]] (or female, [[UnsettlingGenderReveal but that's]] [[WholesomeCrossdresser another story]]). Baiken even ''calls'' Johnny a dirty old man in her pre-fight introduction. It's Slightly Subverted by the fact that Johnny's back story has him carrying on his dead foster fathers legacy of rescuing orphaned children from a life of loneliness and misery he once lived, but the fact that he only adopts young girls [[NeverLiveItDown doesn't stop fans from essentially calling him a pedophile]].

* ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw'': Junji Morikawa's hobbies are listed as: karate, Kama Sutra, collecting womens' underwear.

** Dr. Germahn, on the other hand is a dirty old man. He constantly gives his attractive female assistant [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2002-03-12 shrink soda]], he keeps tabs on [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2010-02-26 very specific]] things in his lab with the security cameras, and he invents an interesting formula when he [[http://egscomics.com/egsnp/index.php?arcid=11 joins a health club]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Duane kicks an old man out of the Deadly Nevergreen brothel when he won't stop harrassing the women who aren't prostitutes inside, saying they're only good for one thing and acting like they should service him.

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'' [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-106 SCP-106]] gives off the feel of one due to his preference for attacking people in the 10-25 age bracket. Suffice to say this isn't even the creepiest thing about [[HumanoidAbomination him]].

* ''WebAnimation/RefreshingStories'': When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdXsN9w0NJc Mia]] tried to tell Takamachi to lift the toll fee for crossing his property, he tried to ask her to marry him in exchange of Takamachi letting Mia's family cross his property without paying the toll fee. Her father, Hiroshi was enraged when Mia told him about the encounter and got revenge on him.

When played for comedy he is either a disgusting pervert who [[ArmorPiercingSlap gets]] [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom beaten]] [[MegatonPunch up]] by the girls he assaults or a [[LoveableRogue delightful rogue]] whom the girls tolerate. When played seriously, he's usually some variety of sexual predator or mistaken as such, and finds it hard to prove his innocence.

* ''Film/BoratSubsequentMoviefilm'': [[SignatureScene Infamously]], the film catches former New York mayor Rudy Guiliani on hidden camera reaching his hand down his trousers in front of a teenage BlondeRepublicanSexKitten (in reality it's [[DawsonCasting 24-yo]] Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova). At best, he was just tucking his shirt in; at worst, he was [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbating in front of her to try and seduce her]].

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Just what he sounds like]] — an older male character, usually unattractive in some way, who takes more than a passive delight in young women, ahem. Sometimes he limits himself to just talking dirty and propositioning cute girls, but sometimes he takes matters into his own hands. [[ThanksForTheMammary Literally]]. He's not TheCasanova, nor is he necessarily trying to be — but he certainly won't complain if things work out that way for him.

The "old" part of his description is mostly relative to the girls he accosts — a creepy thirty-something teacher eyeing his junior high school students is no less a Dirty Old Man than a man in his late sixties pinching the bottoms of housewives in the supermarket, though it's worth bearing out that a younger Dirty Old Man's behavior is going to be seen as a good deal ''less'' harmless than that of his hoary-headed counterparts. Probably because a Dirty ''Old'' Man is supposedly less likely to chase his victims, or force worse things upon them. There's also the fact that regardless of the man's age, it's almost invariably considered less harmful for him to turn his attention on fully matured women, as opposed to girls who are still developing. Of course, since some men [[YoungerThanTheyLook start looking semi-elderly as early as their late twenties]], for all practical purposes, this trope covers a wide latitude.

The "old" part of his description is mostly relative to the girls he accosts — a creepy thirty-something teacher eyeing his junior high school students is no less a Dirty Old Man than a geezer in his sixties pinching the bottoms of housewives in the supermarket, though it's worth bearing out that a younger Dirty Old Man's behavior is going to be seen as a good deal ''less'' harmless than that of his hoary-headed counterparts. Probably because a Dirty ''Old'' Man is supposedly less likely to chase his victims, or force worse things upon them. There's also the fact that regardless of the man's age, it's almost invariably considered less harmful for him to turn his attention on fully matured women, as opposed to girls who are still developing. Of course, since some men [[YoungerThanTheyLook start looking semi-elderly as early as their late twenties]], for all practical purposes, this trope covers a wide latitude.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-106 SCP-106]] gives off the feel of one due to his preference for attacking people in the 10-25 age bracket. Suffice to say this isn't even the creepiest thing about [[HumanoidAbomination him]].

[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Just what he sounds like]] — an older male character, usually unattractive in some way, who takes more than a passive delight in young women, ahem. Sometimes he limits himself to just talking dirty and propositioning cute girls, but sometimes he takes matters into his own hands. [[ThanksForTheMammary Literally]]. He's not TheCasanova, nor is he necessarily trying to be — but he certainly won't complain if things work out that way for him.

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Just what he sounds like]] — an older male character, usually unattractive in some way, who acts in a lecherous or lewd manner and especially takes more than a passive delight in young women, ahem. Sometimes he limits himself to just talking dirty and propositioning cute girls, but sometimes he takes matters into his own hands. [[ThanksForTheMammary Literally]]. He's not TheCasanova, nor is he necessarily trying to be — but he certainly won't complain if things work out that way for him.

The "old" part of his description is mostly relative to the girls he accosts — a creepy thirty-something teacher eyeing his junior high school students is no less a Dirty Old Man than a geezer in his seventies pinching the bottoms of housewives in the supermarket, though it's worth bearing out that a younger Dirty Old Man's behavior is going to be seen as a good deal ''less'' harmless than that of his hoary-headed counterparts. Probably because a Dirty ''Old'' Man is supposedly less likely to chase his victims, or force worse things upon them. There's also the fact that regardless of the man's age, it's almost invariably considered less harmful for him to turn his attention on fully matured women. Of course, since some men [[YoungerThanTheyLook start looking semi-elderly as early as their late twenties]], for all practical purposes, this trope covers a wide latitude.

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Just what he sounds like]] — an older male character, usually unattractive in some way, who takes more than a passive delight in young women, ahem. Sometimes he limits himself to just talking dirty and propositioning cute girls, but sometimes he takes matters into his own hands. [[ThanksForTheMammary Literally]]. He's not TheCasanova, nor is he necessarily trying to be — but he certainly won't complain if things work out that way for him.

The "old" part of his description is mostly relative to the girls he accosts — a creepy thirty-something teacher eyeing his junior high school students is no less a Dirty Old Man than a geezer in his sixties pinching the bottoms of housewives in the supermarket, though it's worth bearing out that a younger Dirty Old Man's behavior is going to be seen as a good deal ''less'' harmless than that of his hoary-headed counterparts. Probably because a Dirty ''Old'' Man is supposedly less likely to chase his victims, or force worse things upon them. There's also the fact that regardless of the man's age, it's almost invariably considered less harmful for him to turn his attention on fully matured women, as opposed to girls who are still developing. Of course, since some men [[YoungerThanTheyLook start looking semi-elderly as early as their late twenties]], for all practical purposes, this trope covers a wide latitude.

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Just what he sounds like]] — an older male character, usually unattractive in some way, who acts in a lecherous or lewd manner, but most commonly (but not exclusively) one who takes more than a passive delight in young women, ahem. Sometimes he limits himself to just talking dirty and propositioning cute girls, but sometimes he takes matters into his own hands. [[ThanksForTheMammary Literally]]. He's not TheCasanova, nor is he necessarily trying to be — but he certainly won't complain if things work out that way for him.

The "old" part of his description is mostly relative to the girls he accosts — a creepy late-twenty or thirty-something teacher eyeing his junior high school students is no less a Dirty Old Man than a geezer in his seventies pinching the bottoms of housewives in the supermarket, though it's worth bearing out that a younger Dirty Old Man's behavior is going to be seen as a good deal ''less'' harmless than that of his hoary-headed counterparts. Probably because a Dirty ''Old'' Man is supposedly less likely to chase his victims, or force worse things upon them. There's also the fact that regardless of the man's age, it's almost invariably considered less harmful for him to turn his attention on fully matured women, even if he's not interested in them or are not part if his sexual preference/s, as opposed to girls who are still developing. Of course, since some men [[YoungerThanTheyLook start looking semi-elderly as early as their late twenties]], for all practical purposes, this trope covers a wide latitude.

The term "Dirty Old Man" has assumed, specifically in the West, [[PrejudiceTropes ageist]] and [[DoesNotLikeMen misandrist]] connotations, and is used with bias and double standards and for hateful and toxic propaganda purposes, even against men who aren't exactly to be considered "old".

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Just what he sounds like]] — an older male character, usually unattractive in some way, who takes more than a passive delight in young women, ahem. Sometimes he limits himself to just talking dirty and propositioning cute girls, but sometimes he takes matters into his own hands. [[ThanksForTheMammary Literally]]. He's not TheCasanova, nor is he necessarily trying to be — but he certainly won't complain if things work out that way for him.

* Soujirou Izumi from ''Anime/LuckyStar''. When asked if he was a {{Lolicon|AndShotacon}}, he protests the label, saying, "I like normal girls as well, so I am ''also'' a Lolicon".
** His daughter [[OtakuSurrogate Konata]], eighteen years old ([[OlderThanTheyLook and looks even younger]]), is often referred as one -- even though she's neither old nor male!

* [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Merlin]]. Makes sense since his father was apparently an [[HornyDevils incubus]]. His lust for young maidens even leads to his downfall thanks to Nimue.

** There is also Odin, who, contrary to popular belief, is not less of a wise old god like Yahwe or Zeus, and more of a TricksterGod who enjoys sleeping around from time to time. He has frequently used sex to get into the good graces of people who possess knowledge he wants.